64/65 Comets old drag cars lets see pictures

[Hotrodder55]

I thought he had your Comet after '84 but maybe not. I can't remember if I drove it that year or not. It was close though. He's Kenny and sold + traded to a guy named Guy. They lived in Hawaii Kai at the time. I remember races at Sandy Beach. Kenny also owned a orange '64 Comet in highschool (late 70s) that he raced at Sandy's. That one was fast with a 289 4spd. Sent you email so hope it arrived.

[65COMET]

Roger;I just noticed you do not have shock tower braces.You NEED to put something back in there or the towers WILL move!!! ROY.

[tweaked]

Roy, your right it is on my list. I remeber driving in my old 64 fairlane when my buddie first got it on the road with no hood. I was amazed at how much the towers moved. It was supposed to be done a couple weeks ago but I worked on my sons stang so he could race.
Roger

[65COMET]

Roger;KOOL,I'd hate to see you have to takes steps backwards!!! I've actually seen them pull in after hitting a bump! ROY.

[ClearSpot]

QUOTE:
Dunno if this fact has been mentioned but the bid on Beswick's Comet stopped at $310,000 at Mecum's. Anyone know if it sold?

Bill



Bill,Yes it's current owner is out of Canton,Mi.He brought it to the AllFord show at the Ford Glasshouse last weekend.Boy,It gets your attention running or not! Guess he has a stable of AFX/BFX comets....

[teddisnoke]

Overcame a few more hurdles this week on the Rocket. Still no engine, but I should have a soundbyte of it by next week's end (fingers crossed!) Its going back in for final color-sand, and hood paint (Kudo's to Crites for their great work on the hood, it fit quite nice!). The front end anodize pieces were quite worn, so I tried what I did to the back trim. Stripped them down, and had them polished out. It turned out far better than I anticipated!!! And, we finally got the new braking system to hold fluid, including the pesky frontend staging brake in the inside. Quarter mile long burnouts outta bring a crowd outta the pits!!!!

[65COMET]

Dale;I guess you can breath now!!!! It looks like the grill and everything else turned out beautiful!!!! If you look at Mercury Junky's pictures,post 1525,he uses a piece of small chain hooked where the hood springs go,to hold his hood open. ROY.

[65COMET]

SixGun;do you have any info on that 65 Comet? It must be one badassed runner in order to run Top Sportsman!!!!!That is one serious piece of machinery!! ROY.

[mercuryjunky]

PINKS ALL OUT BANDIMERE update
Well it was a rough friday.Somebody should have told me to never ever ever race on Friday the 13th.Ist qualify, Launched hard ,Coil wire with the power tower part of the coil came undone came down and shorted out on the timing cover, Completly smoked my MSD box poof, done.
It's a good thing I have an expensive 65 Sohc parts car at home with the same exact MSD box in it.So all those hours of fancing wiring fell victim to a wire cutter in seconds.Eddie and I hauled ass back to the track after getting some 5 dollar little ceaser pizzas(that I'm sure now are not good for you) and some beer for late night wrenching.Got ready for the second round of qualifying.Half way through the pass Water pump stopped working overheated the car, throwing water all over the wind shield.Turns out my wire connection in the weather pac was loose,something you never thing to look at.Done for the day.
Sat, Have to say The whole event is a lot of waiting, fours days in, kinda a pain in the ass.Ist pass,now they are changing the rules, you red light, and you get disqualified,You dont run in your time slot, and your disqaulified.Track conditions not that great,too many cars running through too fast with little track prep.Ist round Best run To date at Bandimere 10.5 @ 130 mph solid run good R/T.Second round Solid run but broke traction at starting line 10.6 @129 mph.My class was solid had about 40 cars all running close to that 10.6 range.
Again waited another hour or so to find out they picked a 11.5 class.Third year now they have picked a 12.5 class ,12.0 class,11.5 class.Not sure if I would do it again its a lot of time involved,I guess I would rather lose on my own ability then not to be picked and have a chance.Not much video this time they wouldnt let Eddie take any.
But heres a couple that I had to buy.

[427 SOHC]

I am new to the board and have just purchased a 65 comet.
Can someone tell me what is the center to center distance from kingpin to kingpin for a front straight axle that best fits a comet.

Thanks

[mercuryjunky]

Heres what I have in Video.Thanks to Fast Eddie for all of the great video and helping wrench this season

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[65COMET]

427SOHC;if anyone on here would know it would be Dale[teddiesnoke],he is building a 64 Comet with a straight axle.ROY.

[Troublemaker427]

Ken, sounds like you guys just need to forget about the big mouth bald guy's tv show and come east and race...lol We have nine second air here too!!
Car looks great as usual.

Originally Posted by mercuryjunky

PINKS ALL OUT BANDIMERE update
Well it was a rough friday.Somebody should have told me to never ever ever race on Friday the 13th.Ist qualify, Launched hard ,Coil wire with the power tower part of the coil came undone came down and shorted out on the timing cover, Completly smoked my MSD box poof, done.
It's a good thing I have an expensive 65 Sohc parts car at home with the same exact MSD box in it.So all those hours of fancing wiring fell victim to a wire cutter in seconds.Eddie and I hauled ass back to the track after getting some 5 dollar little ceaser pizzas(that I'm sure now are not good for you) and some beer for late night wrenching.Got ready for the second round of qualifying.Half way through the pass Water pump stopped working overheated the car, throwing water all over the wind shield.Turns out my wire connection in the weather pac was loose,something you never thing to look at.Done for the day.
Sat, Have to say The whole event is a lot of waiting, fours days in, kinda a pain in the ass.Ist pass,now they are changing the rules, you red light, and you get disqualified,You dont run in your time slot, and your disqaulified.Track conditions not that great,too many cars running through too fast with little track prep.Ist round Best run To date at Bandimere 10.5 @ 130 mph solid run good R/T.Second round Solid run but broke traction at starting line 10.6 @129 mph.My class was solid had about 40 cars all running close to that 10.6 range.
Again waited another hour or so to find out they picked a 11.5 class.Third year now they have picked a 12.5 class ,12.0 class,11.5 class.Not sure if I would do it again its a lot of time involved,I guess I would rather lose on my own ability then not to be picked and have a chance.Not much video this time they wouldnt let Eddie take any.
But heres a couple that I had to buy.

[tweaked]

Ken, I went to Pinks at PIR last year to watch a few freinds race. Great for the spectators as lots of cars but not so great for the racers. Another downer was that Rich and his boys are goofs and don't seem to really understand drag racing.IMO
Your 64 looks and sounds awesome.

[dogpatch customs]

Originally Posted by 427 SOHC

I am new to the board and have just purchased a 65 comet.
Can someone tell me what is the center to center distance from kingpin to kingpin for a front straight axle that best fits a comet.

Thanks

i will measure mine when i get home tonight and post, i narrowed mine, i beleive i took 4 inches out of it, its out of a f100. there is a thread here on the hamb. shows a great way to do it and still retain the integ. of the axle, search keywords, norrowing, i beam, axle. and you should find it, george

[dogpatch customs]

Dale that front end looks great, cant wait to see it all. gunna put mine to shame,
what trim piece goes along the bottom side of that grill? right above the bumper? thanks

george

[teddisnoke]

I sent you a reply, 427 SOHC. I'll get exact dimensions for you.
Not sure about the trim piece, the one you may be talking about is the piece that goes onto the valance?? Or, the top portion that attaches to the lip of the hood??

I got the car back over to R&A Auto body, to do the final completion of paint and colorsand/polish. It still is so nose to the sky due to no engine trans yet, and I've asked them to mask off as much as possible to keep in clean. After SEMA, we'll dirty the snot outta it at the March Meet, right Roy??

http://public.fotki.com/teddisnoke/t...ket/page7.html

I messed with the newly working staging brake while unloading it. That was FUN!!! It seems to work just fine!!

[65COMET]

Dale;Down and Dirty at the March Meet,YEE HAW!!!! It looks great in the pictures at the paint shop!My engine is FINALLY going back together,it broke July 3rd! If all these shops are so low on work,how come it takes SO long to get anything done?!!!! ROY.

[TomP64]

Wow, lots of great stuff on here after i'd been away a couple weeks.

Holman Moody made six banger intakes? It's a very nice looking piece too.

Having half the Kenz and Leslie duo pose with your Comet is great. That is a real long time Ford/Merc man. I've seen results from drags in Denver in 1949 where he's racing Fords.

[JasonB]

Hey guys, does anyone have any pictures of the 1964 Premier Motors inc. car driven by Jake Howard? Or any info. on it or him?

Thanks Jason